A Path Divided

[JAGwinn]

"Poor Ma, I left her behind me, collecting the 'broken fragments' of her household treasures. All - all gone that she most prized: the old cradle by which she had sat so many hours and sung lullaby's to her darlings... a small pillow sacred to her because her baby boy had died upon it, the family Bible with its well-filled record, Grandma's portrait... Wheat, corn, lard, bacon and indeed almost everything to eat - all gone. (Now) I fully realize our condition - houseless - homeless - Father, Husband - and Brothers far away... "
-Bettie Ridley Blackmore, Murfreesboro

From the pamphlet A PATH DIVIDED - Tennessee's Civil War Heritage Trail, published by Tennessee Wars Commission, March 2016

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/environment/historic-commission/thc_twc_pathdivided.pdf

Here is link to Wars Commission with very much more about the part Tennessee had in the conflict.
https://www.tn.gov/environment/abou...cal-commission/tennessee-wars-commission.html

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

It didn't hit me until reading an account left by Sarah Lane Thompson of what occurred at the William's house, September 1864, that Tennessee was so divided. Her account is pretty unvarnished albeit tough to read- just spent an evening deciphering her original words. Newspaper accounts of Morgan's death are all over the place, good to read an account by an eyewitness who played a role.